Step 3: Building and Running the PolarService

Use a Polar heart rate sensor, a cheap hardware board connected via USB and a little bit of software to put your heart rate on the Web. The live data is served right from your computer and made accessible via the Yaler relay (disclosure: I'm a founder of Yaler). Once you turn off the local service, the data is no longer public - own your data!

That said, the purpose of this project is of course to share your heart rate. My heart rate URL for example ishttp://try.yaler.net/tamberg-polar (Note: you'll get a "504 Gateway Timeout" error or an empty page if my heart is not online.)

(Note: This project has been waiting in my Instructables drafts folder since March 2011. The setup was extended using a BlueSmirf Bluetooth module to increase range during the legendary 24 hour Pachube IoT Hackathon in April 2011, but I fear I'll never manage to document that part. So, here's the basic desktop version at least.)